Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the
Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines
the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving
beyond the officially recognized, and often religiously conceived,
pilgrimage sites. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of
pilgrims and tourists has demonstrated, pilgrimage need not be
religious in nature, nor be officially sanctioned; rather, they can
be 'hyper-meaningful' voyages, set apart from the everyday profane
life-in a word, they are sacred. Separating the social category of
'religion' from the 'sacred,' this volume brings together a
multidisciplinary group of scholars employing perspectives from
anthropology, geography, sociology, religious studies, theology,
and interdisciplinary tourism studies to theorize sacredness, its
variability, and the ways in which it is officially recognized or
condemned by power brokers. Rich in case studies from sacred
centers throughout the world, the contributions pay close attention
to the ways in which pilgrims, central authorities, site managers,
locals, and other stakeholders on the ground appropriate,
negotiate, shape, contest, or circumvent the powerful forces of the
sacred. Delving 'beyond the officially sacred,' this collective
examination of pilgrimages-both well-established and new, religious
and secular, authorized and not-presents a compelling look at the
interplay of secular powers and the transcendent forces of the
sacred at these hyper-meaningful sites. Providing a blueprint for
how work in the anthropology and geography of religion, and the
fields of pilgrimage and religious tourism, may move forward,
Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred will be of great interest
to an interdisciplinary field of scholars. The chapters were
originally published as a special issue in Tourism Geographies.
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